With more and more women stepping forward with stories of being sexually harassed and/or assaulted by Donald Trump, Buzzfeed has set up an email address (and a Google Doc form) to make it easy for anyone with a “Trump story” of their own to contact Buzzfeed’s reporters.
Naturally, because this is the crappiest election year ever, Alt-Right Trump fans and other in Trump’s vast if unofficial shitposter army are spamming the form with rape jokes and Pepe references, and gleefully posting screenshots of the, er, hilarity on Twitter. Because what’s more funny than a presidential candidate facing numerous all-too-believable accusations from women who say that he actually has done to them the terrible things he’s regularly bragged about doing to women?
poor pepe pic.twitter.com/8cLjR9Pii4
— Nahum (@nahumg_ld) October 13, 2016
— Surf Scoter (@SurfScoter2) October 13, 2016
https://twitter.com/G_Germanicus/status/786611830932340740
https://twitter.com/MrJohnQZombie/status/786616227619758080
I found all of these Tweets on Matt Forney’s Twitter feed; I’m sure there are many more out there of equal hilarity.
I often wonder how morally bankrupt and full of self-loathing you have to be to consider this kind of shit FUNNY.
Obviously asking the internet for feedback is a bad idea (see:HitlerDidNothingWrongMountainDew) but the deplorables live up to it so well.
Drumpf has been upping the paranoid conspiracy language in his speeches over the last few days, which makes it a lot more likely that one – or many, many more than one – of his rabid fans will actually attack Drumpf’s perceived enemies when he goes down in flames on Nov. 8.
I really hope I’m wrong about that.
Please let me be wrong.
I’m actually more worried about what they’re going to do ON Nov. 8….
New York Times “declines to retract”
WELLLLL SAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So there big plan to make Trump look good is to show that his supporters are a bunch of liars going out of there way to stop rape victims from getting there story’s heard? Yeah you tell me how that works out for you guys.
@Wierd Eddie – I want to give Mr. McCraw a standing ovation. 🙂
@Zatar This particular breed of meme-spouting online Trump support is a special case. They’re only Trump supporters by opportunity. On a more fundamental level, they’re simply trolls. They don’t care whether or not Donald wins, they just want to offend as many people and be as much of a collective asshole as they can, and Trump’s campaign turned out to be the perfect vehicle to utilize towards that end during this election cycle.
Once the election is over, (most) of them will discard their red caps and continue their harassment elsewhere. When the rat’s nest gets destroyed, the rats flee in all directions.
Welp…
I think if Donald Trump is going to threaten to sue anyone, it should be his supporters. They’re damaging his campaign far more than any media outlet ever could.
I’m trying to figure out what these assholes find funny in this. At first I thought they were trying to make some ludicrous point about the credibility of the many women who have come forward, but now I’m thinking, no. What’s mockable to them, here, is the idea that these women’s stories are worth paying attention to. I don’t think they’re saying “that didn’t happen,” I think they’re saying “who cares if that happened? It’s not like it’s a bad thing.”
Regarding the Trump lawsuit threat: I would like to remind all and sundry that one of the earliest things Trump said in the campaign (back in the pre-nomination days) is that he would change the law to make it easier for public figures to sue:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/02/donald-trump-libel-laws-219866
@ Viscaria
Exactly. For these people, indeed, seemingly for ALL his supporters, the appeal of Trump is the “return to 1958” when only cis-het white men mattered at all.
This shit’s so funny, I forgot to laugh.
No, seriously, though…I’ve gotten more chuckles out of watching paint dry.
Must have been the fumes.
(Not a great clip, it’s a bit artifact’ey and cuts off at the end. Still.)
Make America great again … by removing one the most fundamental rights. This really does highlight the difference between freeze peach and free speech. Fans of the former just want the people who criticize them for being assholes silenced. They don’t care about the freedom of speech or press at.
@Nidi
Bullshit. They’re sincere white male supremacists hiding behind a thin veneer of “Just kidding,” and brushing them off as “Trolls” for the past eight years is exactly what’s allowed them to slowly take over our online and political discourses in the first place. Trump panders to their wants and goals, not the other way around.
Eh I expect this from people who literally believe thinking that wishing something hard enough makes it real. Ironic worship like all “ironic” actions turns sincere faster than it takes for eggs to go bad. They don’t really care about empathy, because that would mean addressing their complexes about superiority/inferiority. How much would I bet that most of them would justify it to some friends with “got bullied and rejected?” Not worth it, usually because no one would bet otherwise.
But more importantly, it shows exactly why these people will never have the clout to ever take over the White House, they just simply lack the ability to appeal to anyone outside their fringe hate groups when the chips are down.
@Scented Fucking Hard Chairs
Yea, 100% this. Decades of GOP propaganda has lead to this. There is no “irony” here, just pure spite for other people that aren’t white supremacists. I refuse the “boys will be boys” argument for cases like these.
It says much about Trump that he doesn’t condemn these supporters.
Speaking of Trump fans, Vox Day decided to make his own Wikipedia, Infogalactic (“the planetary knowledge core!”), because Wikipedia is “too biased” (read: doesn’t support him). Thrill to articles lifted entirely from Wikipedia! Thrill to Vox’s article on himself, copied from the Wikipedia with minor additions! At least the Castalia House article is original, but only because Wikipedia doesn’t consider Castalia House notable enough for its own article. Be sure to check out the Alt-Right article, again copied but with Vox’s own opinions (Alt-White! Alt-West!) on it inserted. Favorite quote so far:
Zatar… Their/They’re/There
Know the difference.
Pretty pathetic to try to insult anyone if you can’t even speak your own language properly.
To do that, Trump would have to literally change the Constitution.
I say this not to dismiss his threat as empty, although it certainly is. I say it to point out how little Trump knows about/likes the Constitution that his supporters claim to adore so hard. The reason it’s hard for public figures to sue for libel isn’t that there is some statute out there that forbids it. It’s because the Constitution has this thing called the First Amendment, which has this thing called freedom of the press in it.
Trump likes to shit on the Constitution at every opportunity. The people who endorse him are at least okay with that, and his fans actively lap that up. So much for the sacredness of the document!
I feel for the poor Buzzfeed intern who has to wade through all this shit. No seriously, if I had the wherewithall I’d send them some chocolate or something.
Also, it seems to me that the Buzzfeed PTB have legitimate cause to complain to the Twitter PTB about this asshole Matt Forney’s behavior, and to demand that he be permabanned.
Ya:
Are you sincerely trying to tell me you couldn’t glean the intent of what Zatar was saying?
I’ve reposted it with some minor editing.
Is this easier to understand, now?
Critiquing someone’s grammar is definitely the best way to discuss a concept. That gets way down into the meat of things and doesn’t dance around the surface at all.
@Nidi
Ugh, I’m so tired of this argument. That these are just “harmless” trolls who don’t really believe this when again and again they’ve revealed that yeah, they really do believe marginalized people are awful, they are sincere in their beliefs in white nationalism, and they tend to be exactly the people you would expect to be posting this shit in earnest.
“They were just trolling” is a giant dodge that has never been a crock of shit and a way for those engaging in casual terrorism of those who are not cis white straight men to deny the consequences of their intentional actions to drive away everyone not like them.
And it should have died years ago, but especially should die in an election year where the king of these “trolls” is hired on as the election manager of a major party candidate and their actions have real election consequences.
This is the worst side of America, with a voice and access to the internet. And they are repeating all their tried and true KKK and homophobic posse tricks now through the medium of the internet.
And if we don’t take it seriously, as the terrorism it is intended to be, these dregs of society will continue to drag us down into the swamp and terrorize all those who are marginalized.